Word: manifestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...
...manifest that acts of wanton lawlessness and of arbitrary force are threatening world peace and the very structure of modern civilization...
Under stress at high temperatures (750°-1,000° F.), most metals, even hard alloy steels, manifest a sort of internal slip or "creep." To prevent costly machine failures and ugly accidents, metallurgists have long studied, measured and allowed for creep, but they still do not know much about what fundamentally happens...
Sorokin declares that "Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and other famous detectives always start with the main clue; find the motive and the criminal is discovered." The professor declares that crime cannot be traced to the door by mere discovery of a motive, since a motive can manifest itself in many overt acts...
...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...